Large PAGES 08 docs print agonizing slowly

It took 3 hrs to print a 13.5 mB PAGES document (95 pages). Printing is routed by our mac XSERVE to a Konica Minolata Bizhub C451 with 1 gB RAM. http://www.bizhub.biz/pdfs/C451.pdf
Oddly, or should I say sadly, when we exported the same PAGES doc to MS Word the printing was blazing fast. The Konica Minolata Bizhub technician trained in AppleTalk blamed it on PAGES...
Any ideas?

ExploBob wrote:
Oddly, or should I say sadly, when we exported the same PAGES doc to MS Word the printing was blazing fast. The Konica Minolata Bizhub technician trained in AppleTalk blamed it on PAGES...
Any ideas?
From my point of view, the technician is right.
Given what RC-R wrote in an other thread, you may try to do a "safe boot" to get rid of possible odddity in a file caching extensions and in the fonts cache.
Look at:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1455
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1564
Please, let us know if it changes something.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE jeudi 17 juillet 2008 20:57:25)

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